The Explore-Exploit Tradeoff

Zement

If I want to see what craftsmanship went into the ice cream: Vanilla

If I don't care (like I do usually):

Apple, Tempura, Black Thai Tea = Heavens

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yea try fruit sorbets made from good fruits. you can even do it home. cut up some banana, freeze it, take it out and wait a couple minutes so it can be blended, blend it with some tahini and cinnamon. can repeat similar stuff with strawberries, grapes etc.

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That's when you take the rose flavour... And vanilla

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Yes! That's what I usually do as well. Unless there is some house specialty I've been recommended and I came for, I will try a "reference dish" to get a baseline.

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People are being kind of snotty but there's a difference between the stuff in stores that is portrayed as ice cream but it's actually not.

There are all kinds of "frozen desserts" and "iced treats" etc that use vegetable oils, emulsifiers and such to simulate the ice cream experience, and those tend to also use lower-grade flavorings.

Real ice cream is pretty expensive because it uses mostly real cream and tends to use much higher quality ingredients overall. In a real ice cream product, you're more likely to get actual cocoa vs chocolate-y flavor. Red from actual fruit vs a food dye mixed into corn syrup.

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Ice cream boneheads, the lot of you!

Ice cream is three basic ingredients: cream, sugar, salt.

Anything other than that cannot be considered "plain" ice cream!

Also, I make my own ice cream and I agree that cardamom is top-tier. Shockingly good with a few drops of brewed espresso as well!

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Gotta see the show cause the you'll know the vertigo is gonna grow cause it's dangerous you'll have to sign a waiver

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Vanilla (flavor) may be ubiquitous, but it's not "plain" or boring. Certainly not if made right! That's the false equivalency...

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To Dubai with you

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Quattro fromagi for me, see how well they do it and if they try to cheap out on the cheese.

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Oh dayum that sounds flippin' awesome

stebo

it's not that vanilla is a bad flavour, it's that you can get it anywhere

Carl

I hate pepperoni, it is just too greasy.

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I feel we're missing context. The core question is the utility of the first to the second, either in terms of helping with the quest or at least by dint of providing pleasant company, relative to the effort the second invested for having the first join their journey.

If the first was just a drag, some stranger or acquaintance that heard about the quest and wanted to tag along, made nothing but trouble and the second figuratively carried them all the way out of sympathy or kindness, I'd have some measure of understanding for their frustration. Their outburst would still be pointlessly rash and vengeful, given that the effort is spent already and kicking the other off won't restore it, particularly without knowing the motivation (for instance, the vanilla ice cream being particularly delicious there), but in making someone else haul you along on a difficult quest, apparently with little regard for whether that effort would be worth it or clarifying their stakes from the outset, I'd rule that ESH.

But if the first pulled their weight or even helped, it would be straight up ungrateful and cruel over nothing but personal preference.

Why am I overanalysing the morality of a four-panel comic again?

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Only if they use concentrate. Though ice shops using real fruits/ingredients are rare, they make the best ice.

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But this just has the same problem. Margherita pizzas are also amazing if done right. There is a great Italian restaurant I go to where I rarely get anything but the Margherita because it's so good. What you are think of is "plain cheese and tomato".

lime!

i live in sweden, if a pizza place had less than a hundred different pizzas i'd be weirded out.

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Even a simple white pizza is amazing on its own if they have a good crust and they use good cheese. There was once a local place where I tried that and loved it, and it's something I'd love to try again...if not for how badly dairy just fucks me up. I love getting fancy with ingredients, but sometimes less is more.

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That's why Vanilla is a great litmus-test flavour

stebo

No you are correct, Margherita is great, but I can get that one around the corner. If I'm at a special pizza place, I'm gonna try something new. It might even be not as good as a Margherita but you cannot know that until you've tried it.